STRONGS NUMBER H3038


Word Summary
Yeduthun: leader of a choir of the temple
Original Word: יְדוּתוּן
Transliteration: Yeduthun
Phonetic Spelling: (yed-oo-thoon')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: leader of a choir of the temple
Meaning: Jeduthun
Strong's Concordance
Jeduthun

Or Yduthuwn {yed-oo-thoon'}; or Ydiythuwn {yed-ee-thoon'}; probably from yadah; laudatory; Jeduthun, an Israelite -- Jeduthun.

see HEBREW yadah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3038. Yeduthun

יְדֻתוּן יְדוּתוּן,proper name, masculine usually יְדוּתוּן‎; יְדֻתוּן2 Chronicles 5:12; 35:15; יְדיּ֯תוּןPsalm 39:1; 77:1; Nehemiah 11:37; 1 Chronicles 16:38; chief of one of the three choirs of the temple (only Chronicles & Psalm-titles) 9:16; 16:38, 41, 42; 25:3 (twice in verse); 25:6; 2 Chronicles 5:12; the king's seer 35:15; his descendants formed one of the perpetual temple choirs יְדוּתוּן בְּנֵי1 Chronicles 16:42; 25:1, 3; 2 Chronicles 29:14; בֶּןיְֿדיּ֯תוּןNehemiah 11:17. In Psalm-titles ידותון עלPsalm 62:1; 77:1 (Qr); לִידיּתוּן39:1 (לְ‎ error for עלֿ‎), all = after the manner of (the choir of) Yeduthun (musical term according to RSOTJC 422, 2nd ed. 143). — see also LagOr ii. 16 ff. and proper name הֵימָן אָסָף,‎ (sub אמן‎), אֵיתָן‎ (sub יתן‎).